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VOLUME 53, ISSUE 50 Friday, Feb. 12, 1993 Dinosaur 1 TTH ff r OThe soon to roam Ogden Parkway See page 3 WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY OGDEN, UTAH 5 i Touching base An airplane appears to be landing above the head of Carl Knapp, a representative from the Federal Aviation Administration. Knapp, along with other 40 other representatives from different companies, were at Thursday's Career Fair sponsored by Career Services. WSU budget presented to Legislature By JOYCE ZABRISKIE Signpost senior reporter President Paul H. Thompson and student body president Melinda Roylance presented a 1993-94 budget for Weber State University to a Legislative appropriations commi ttee, Wednesday. - The Board of Regents and Thompson asked for about $7 million in funds while the governor and legislators want to give only about $3 million to WSU. Thompson said it was urgent to bring WSU staff salaries in line with industries in Northern Utah. Thompson presented a list which showed WSU salaries are 35 percent below salaries of staff at other institutions of higher learning. With benefits, employee pay was about 16 percent below average. "This creates a problem for us, as people leave us to go to work forotherorganizations in thecom-munity," Thompson said. Thompson said WSU is committed to its mission of providing education and training for jobs. That includes providing educa- tion in liberal arts and science fields as well as vocational and technological fields. In the past four years, WSU has dropped 19 degree programs that did not meet the mission. A total of 392 courses were dropped. It w Paul H. Thompson Funds that were freed up by the changes were shifted to areas of job strength like nursing, machines technologies, computer science, math and manufacturing technologies. "Areas that are central to the mission of Weber State we have invested in," Thompson said. Seventy percent of WSU's students come from four counties, Davis, Weber, Box Elder and Morgan. About 5 percent come from out of state. Thompson said the faculty, staff and administration had to make some major choices after reviewing students' choices of careers and the actual employers n t ) X CHAD MOSHERTHF SIGNPOST who are hiring. "What we are trying to do is focus an educational niche, we can't do everything," Thompson said. He said schools like ATC in Ogden and DATC in Kaysville can fulfill technical and vocational training. Th V ompson said Weber State does not plan to become a research faci li ty beca use there a re other schools in Utah to do that. He does not want to duplicate education offered other places, he said. "We are a quality, undergraduate teaching institution that happens to bea metropolitan university," Thompson said. Since 1984, WSU has seen a steady decline in state support for full-time enrolled students, from $3,328 per full-time student in 1988 to $2,544 in 1993, a 24 percent decline. Thompson said that WSU has about 900 adjunct professors and Proposed bill may cause student fee hike Lakey having second thoughts By MARK FORSBERG Signpost government affairs editor Tom Lakey, integrated and general studies senator, is having second thoughts about his bill, which would tack an extra $3 per quarter on next year's student fees. The bill, called "computer lab fee," would provide a new computer lab in the Stewart Library at a cost of $9 per student per year, about $144,000. This will increase student fees from the 5 percent already approved by the student senate to about 7.5 percent."I'm not real happy with the fees being as high as they are," he said, expressing concern over raising the fees another 2.5 percent.Lakey said he drafted the bill after listening to the Academic Resource Computer Commi ttee's (ARCC) presentation to the sen-a te regarding a $200,000 one-time expense to go towards improving and building computer centers on campus. Although the Student Fee Allocation Committee (SFAC) said the request did not fulfill the is committed to economic development. He said student enrollments are increasing the need to bring salaries in line to keep faculty members here. "Compensation continues to be an important issue at Weber State. We have problems with faculty members leaving the institution," Thompson said. Thompson said the number of students from Davis County is increasing but support services is not increasing at the same rate. He requested more full-time faculty to handle the increasing student growth plus more student support services, financial aid, and advisement. Roylance requested $583,100 for student support services. She said when she was elected president last spring, there were three main areas of students' complaints: financial aid services, academic advisement and more library hours. "One would assume that with ceiling in enrollment that applications for financial aid would (See BUDGET page 2) student fee philosophy, Lakey said his bill can circumvent the philosophy if it is included as a separate line item in student fees, like the STAARS fee. "STAARS, itself, does not fit the student fee philosophy," said Mike McCleve, senate adviser. But students can still be charged for it because it is listed separately, he said. He added the SFAC only hears requests that fall under the philosophy. Requests that to not fit the philosophy are heard directly by the senate and do not go through the process. Dolly Samson, of the ARCC committee, said Lakey's bill would fit into their three-year master plan to provide both students and faculty with adequate computer services. The bill will be placed before faculty sena te this Thursday. The ARCC also receives a yearly allotment from administration. Lakey's bill, if passes, will provide the Stewart Library with 40 personal computers, 40 ethernet cards, 2 high-speed printers, 1 server, software licenses and various remodeling costs. The bill will be voted on in Monday's senate. ODAY'S EWS P ORTS The Wildcats were defeated in the Dee Events Center by Boise State University, 94-72. See page 7. ARTS "Sophisticated Ladies," a musical about jazz great Duke Ellington, premieres Tuesday, Feb. 16. See page 6. TV .J

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VOLUME 53, ISSUE 50 Friday, Feb. 12, 1993 Dinosaur 1 TTH ff r OThe soon to roam Ogden Parkway See page 3 WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY OGDEN, UTAH 5 i Touching base An airplane appears to be landing above the head of Carl Knapp, a representative from the Federal Aviation Administration. Knapp, along with other 40 other representatives from different companies, were at Thursday's Career Fair sponsored by Career Services. WSU budget presented to Legislature By JOYCE ZABRISKIE Signpost senior reporter President Paul H. Thompson and student body president Melinda Roylance presented a 1993-94 budget for Weber State University to a Legislative appropriations commi ttee, Wednesday. - The Board of Regents and Thompson asked for about $7 million in funds while the governor and legislators want to give only about $3 million to WSU. Thompson said it was urgent to bring WSU staff salaries in line with industries in Northern Utah. Thompson presented a list which showed WSU salaries are 35 percent below salaries of staff at other institutions of higher learning. With benefits, employee pay was about 16 percent below average. "This creates a problem for us, as people leave us to go to work forotherorganizations in thecom-munity," Thompson said. Thompson said WSU is committed to its mission of providing education and training for jobs. That includes providing educa- tion in liberal arts and science fields as well as vocational and technological fields. In the past four years, WSU has dropped 19 degree programs that did not meet the mission. A total of 392 courses were dropped. It w Paul H. Thompson Funds that were freed up by the changes were shifted to areas of job strength like nursing, machines technologies, computer science, math and manufacturing technologies. "Areas that are central to the mission of Weber State we have invested in," Thompson said. Seventy percent of WSU's students come from four counties, Davis, Weber, Box Elder and Morgan. About 5 percent come from out of state. Thompson said the faculty, staff and administration had to make some major choices after reviewing students' choices of careers and the actual employers n t ) X CHAD MOSHERTHF SIGNPOST who are hiring. "What we are trying to do is focus an educational niche, we can't do everything," Thompson said. He said schools like ATC in Ogden and DATC in Kaysville can fulfill technical and vocational training. Th V ompson said Weber State does not plan to become a research faci li ty beca use there a re other schools in Utah to do that. He does not want to duplicate education offered other places, he said. "We are a quality, undergraduate teaching institution that happens to bea metropolitan university," Thompson said. Since 1984, WSU has seen a steady decline in state support for full-time enrolled students, from $3,328 per full-time student in 1988 to $2,544 in 1993, a 24 percent decline. Thompson said that WSU has about 900 adjunct professors and Proposed bill may cause student fee hike Lakey having second thoughts By MARK FORSBERG Signpost government affairs editor Tom Lakey, integrated and general studies senator, is having second thoughts about his bill, which would tack an extra $3 per quarter on next year's student fees. The bill, called "computer lab fee," would provide a new computer lab in the Stewart Library at a cost of $9 per student per year, about $144,000. This will increase student fees from the 5 percent already approved by the student senate to about 7.5 percent."I'm not real happy with the fees being as high as they are," he said, expressing concern over raising the fees another 2.5 percent.Lakey said he drafted the bill after listening to the Academic Resource Computer Commi ttee's (ARCC) presentation to the sen-a te regarding a $200,000 one-time expense to go towards improving and building computer centers on campus. Although the Student Fee Allocation Committee (SFAC) said the request did not fulfill the is committed to economic development. He said student enrollments are increasing the need to bring salaries in line to keep faculty members here. "Compensation continues to be an important issue at Weber State. We have problems with faculty members leaving the institution," Thompson said. Thompson said the number of students from Davis County is increasing but support services is not increasing at the same rate. He requested more full-time faculty to handle the increasing student growth plus more student support services, financial aid, and advisement. Roylance requested $583,100 for student support services. She said when she was elected president last spring, there were three main areas of students' complaints: financial aid services, academic advisement and more library hours. "One would assume that with ceiling in enrollment that applications for financial aid would (See BUDGET page 2) student fee philosophy, Lakey said his bill can circumvent the philosophy if it is included as a separate line item in student fees, like the STAARS fee. "STAARS, itself, does not fit the student fee philosophy," said Mike McCleve, senate adviser. But students can still be charged for it because it is listed separately, he said. He added the SFAC only hears requests that fall under the philosophy. Requests that to not fit the philosophy are heard directly by the senate and do not go through the process. Dolly Samson, of the ARCC committee, said Lakey's bill would fit into their three-year master plan to provide both students and faculty with adequate computer services. The bill will be placed before faculty sena te this Thursday. The ARCC also receives a yearly allotment from administration. Lakey's bill, if passes, will provide the Stewart Library with 40 personal computers, 40 ethernet cards, 2 high-speed printers, 1 server, software licenses and various remodeling costs. The bill will be voted on in Monday's senate. ODAY'S EWS P ORTS The Wildcats were defeated in the Dee Events Center by Boise State University, 94-72. See page 7. ARTS "Sophisticated Ladies," a musical about jazz great Duke Ellington, premieres Tuesday, Feb. 16. See page 6. TV .J